More draconian cuts from the Defense Department... only? Soon to be added by vast numbers more from DOD by the Politburo Of Twelve and the "sweet" Debt Deal our lame Republican leadership simply couldn't resist? What a shocker!
I've got an idea. Let's first cut some of the hundreds of thousands of slugs recently added to the already horribly bloated federal bureaucracy since the Kenyan King took office.
Does anybody think any of these added legions of lard assed bureaucrats ("minorities" only need apply) were needed in the slightest? At least the DOD has a legitimate function! The other functions are mostly like cold over-used cooking grease pumped into our national economic arteries. Worse, actually.
Let's first cut some of the hundreds of thousands of slugs recently added to the already horribly bloated federal bureaucracy since the Kenyan King took office. You are correct.
Defense as a % of GDP is at a historical low. Right now, it is less than 4%, and projected to go even lower.
It isn't Defense Spending that is breaking the back of this nation. It is entitlements and welfare (the latter including those collecting unemployment insurance for a very long time, Medicare, Medicaid, and the explosion of the Food Stamp (SNAP CARD) program.
Rep Howard McKenon, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee recently said:
"It is impossible to pay our entitlementt tab with the Pentagon's credit card."
But, that is what the Democrats are doing.
If people think the economy is bad now, wait until hundreds of thousands of jobs are soon lost by devastating the DoD and industry.
We will go off the cliff into a Great Depression that will drawf anything you have seen.